Research Professor David Lawrence

BSc, PhD, ATCL

Areas of Research expertise: Child and adolescent mental
health and wellbeing, Physical health of people with mental
illness, Smoking,Diet, nutrition and obesity, Human capability
expansion

David Lawrence is a Research Professor at The University of
Western Australia, seconded to the Telethon Kids Institute.

He has been working at the Institute since 2001, but has been
involved with the Institute since 1991 when he worked on the
Western Australian Child Health Survey.

David has expertise in the design and analysis of complex
surveys and in the use of linked administrative data. His
research interests include the child and adolescent mental health
and wellbeing, physical health of people with mental illness,
smoking, diet, nutrition and obesity, and human capability
expansion

Boterhoven de Haan KL, Hafekost J, Lawrence D, Sawyer MG,
Zubrick SR (2014) Reliability and validity of a short version of
the general functioning subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment
Device. Family Process. doi: 10.1111/famp.12113

Christensen D, Zubrick SR, Lawrence D, Mitrou, Taylor CL (2014)
Risk factors for low receptive vocabulary abilities in the
preschool and early school years in the Longitudinal Study of
Australian Children. PLoS One 9(7):e101476. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0101476.

Lawrence D, Hancock K, Kisely S (2013) The gap in life
expectancy from preventable physical illness in psychiatric
patients: A retrospective analysis of population based registers in
Western Australia. BMJ. 346:f2539.

Lawrence D, Mitrou F, Sawyer MR, Zubrick SR (2010).
Smoking status and emotional or behavioural problems in young
people: Child and Adolescent component of the National Survey of
Mental Health and Wellbeing. Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Psychiatry. 44: 805-814.

Lawrence D, Considine J, Mitrou F, Zubrick SR (2010)
Anxiety disorders and cigarette smoking. Results from the
Australian Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Australian
and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 44: 521-528.

Cooke M, Mitrou FG,Lawrence DM, Guimond E, Beavon D (2007)
Aboriginal well-being in four countries: An application of the
UNDP's Human Development Index to Aboriginal peoples in Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. BMC
International Health and Human Rights. 7:
9.

Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ, Threlfall TJ,Lawrence D, De Klerk N
(2002) Increasing "active prevalence" of cancer in Western
Australia and its implications for health services.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.26:
164-169.

Brinkman S, Silburn SR, Lawrence DM, Oberklaid F, Goldfeld S,
Sayers M, Coutts M, Hart B (2007) Construct and concurrent
validity of the Australian Early Development Index: A report to the
Technical Advisory Group for the Australian Early Development
Index: Building Better Communities for Children project.
Melbourne: Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children's
Hospital.
http://www.rch.org.au/emplibrary/australianedi/AEDI_LSAC_Validation_Study_Report_Final.pdf

Mitrou F, Lawrence D, De Maio J, and the WAACHS team (2006).
Education of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and
young people. In: Australian Social Trends 2006. Australian Bureau
of Statistics Catalogue 4102.0. Canberra: ABS. pp 97-103.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/4102.02006?OpenDocument